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yellowdogintexas

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18. any time you go to a BBQ place, slaw and potato salad are on the side list
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 11:26 PM
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We always had both when we had a BBQ party (when I was still living with my parents), and we put slaw on our sandwiches. We had a literal BBQ shack in town, ( I firmly believe that if you sneezed real hard it would fall down) a pig was roasted on hot rocks (which had been fired for two days) under a heavy tarp. It was basted with this amazing vinegary hot thin barbecue sauce and we always had it for July 4th. You could smell it all over town, too. I would sell my soul for a bottle of that sauce!!!!! I have never found a sauce quite like it, although Red Hot and Blue had one that came close.

The owner/cook had been cooking pigs from when my dad was a kid, and her father before her. Legend has it that her grandfather or maybe great grandfather was the pit master at a plantation in North Carolina. She never shared the recipe for that sauce either, despite my uncle begging her for it. Whenever he came to visit, he brought several 2 liter soda bottles and filled them up with that sauce.

Now I really want to go to Kentucky!!

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I do because it's made from cabbage TommieMommy Thursday #1
Cabbage is definitely a vegetable. SheltieLover Thursday #2
It's sliced cabbage ..... Diamond_Dog Thursday #3
If it is really heavy on the cabbage and/or shredded broccoli and carrots--I say yes... hlthe2b Thursday #4
Why would you think it isn't? The Blue Flower Thursday #5
yes, cabbage is a veggie riversedge Thursday #6
Cabbage, sometimes with shredded carrots and/or chopped onion. enough Thursday #7
Yes it absolutely is a veggie Niagara Thursday #8
It's a vegetable until...... lastlib Thursday #9
Have you ever had vinegar slaw? It is very good yellowdogintexas Thursday #17
It's a salad and if done correctly it is Yummy. Tikki Thursday #10
Now I want a pulled pork sandwich with vinegary hot sauce and slaw on the sandwich yellowdogintexas Thursday #16
Yes...slaw should be accompanied by hot sauce and in my case Tikki Thursday #19
I'd say it's close to a salad - dressed raw veggies. legallyblondeNYC Thursday #11
I guess i was thinking green. Danmel Thursday #12
I would say they are not redundant because they have a completely different taste and texture yellowdogintexas Thursday #15
any time you go to a BBQ place, slaw and potato salad are on the side list yellowdogintexas Thursday #18
Cole slaw is not a vegetable but the cabbage and carrots Alpeduez21 Thursday #13
Absolutely; it is made with cabbage yellowdogintexas Thursday #14
Could have been worse. LudwigPastorius Friday #20
I consider potatoes vegetables. Morbius Friday #21
no but......I'd give him a pass Skittles Friday #22
He's right Emile Friday #23
Absolutely not! DFW Friday #24
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